Fort Worth, TX Local Taxes & Fees: Parking Tax (2026)

Chapter 32, Article VII of the Fort Worth City Code imposes a parking tax tied to the 2014 voter-approved Will Rogers venue project (the multipurpose arena at Harley Avenue and Gendy Street plus adjacent Will Rogers Memorial Center support facilities). Under § 32-71, the tax equals 50% of the charge for parking a motor vehicle at a venue parking facility, but never more than $5 per vehicle, and it is added to and collected as part of the parking charge itself. Collection runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week starting when the arena receives its certificate of occupancy and continues as long as bonds issued for the venue project remain outstanding.

Parking facility operators (including any city-owned facility's third-party lessee) must remit tax proceeds monthly by the due date defined in § 32-70 as the first business day after the collection period ends, and must file monthly reports under § 32-72 covering total vehicles parked and aggregate tax collected. A delinquency occurs if payment or the report is not postmarked by the 25th of the following month. Proceeds go into the Venue Project Fund under § 32-73 for purposes authorized by Local Government Code Chapter 334, the state statute enabling the tax.